Mark Metz

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03/04/2025 Power & Market Mark Metz

When Benjamin Franklin’s older brother, James, used his anti-establishment newspaper to criticize the Crown’s lax attitude towards pirating along the Atlantic coast, he was tossed in jail. Until his...

Urban Supremacy and the Dismantling of Rural Communities

03/07/2022 Mises Wire Mark Metz

Probably the worst of the multitude of villainous covid restrictions came at the expense of churches, the forced closure of their doors. Coupled with this tragedy was the fact that while churches were...

The Cathedral Is in Decay

02/04/2021 Power & Market Mark Metz

One of Robert Greene’s forty-eight laws of power in his book that goes by that same name is to “create compelling spectacles” as a means of creating the aura of power. One can imagine what this sort...

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